1. Cardiac Arrest on the Playground
This isn't your average heart attack, according to Newsday on 8-23-02, "a sudden cardiac arrest means that the heart, for a variety of reasons, has been forced out of its normal rhythm. ... Louis Post-Dispatch of 5-30-02 clearly illustrates this idea, explaining "Historically, as a first responder, you could only provide CPR, but prolonged CPR doesn't effectively treat ventricular fibrillation-the most common initial rhythm in cardiac arrest." ...
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